For guidance on planning your revegetation or restoration site (size, shape, species, density of planting) refer to chapters four and five of this site.

Remember: good quality vegetation sites may not need revegetation at all. Appropriate management can encourage natural regeneration.

General Native Vegetation Profile:

Carrathool (eastern)

Rivers, Floodplains and Levees Plains Prior Streams, Lunettes and Sand Ridges
LANDFORM Rivers, Floodplains and Levees
VEGETATION TYPE Riverine Forest.
GEOLOGY & SOILS River Red Gum forest or woodland with understorey of herbs, sedges and grasses; includes weir pools and billabongs.
Alluvial, heavy grey, brown or red clay soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Benerembah State Forest, Cuba State Forest.
TREES >8M Acacia stenophylla River Cooba
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Casuarina cristata Belah
Casuarina cunninghamiana subsp. cunninghamiana River Oak
Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum
Eucalyptus largiflorens Black Box
Eucalyptus melliodora Yellow Box
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia oswaldii Miljee
Acacia pendula Boree
Acacia salicina Cooba
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens Rosewood
Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Chenopodium nitrariaceum Nitre Goosefoot
Exocarpos sparteus Slender Cherry
Duma florulenta Lignum
Pittosporum angustifolium Butterbush
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
GROUND COVERS Lachnogrostis filiformis Blown Grass
Alternanthera denticulata Lesser Joyweed
Amphibromus nervosus Veined Swamp Wallaby-grass
Arthropodium minus Small Vanilla-lily
Asperula conferta Common Woodruff
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Azolla filiculoides Red Azolla
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Brachyscome basaltica var. gracilis Swamp Daisy
Bulbine bulbosa Native Leek
Calostemma purpureum Wilcannia Lily
Calotis scapigera Tufted Burr-daisy
Carex appressa Tall Sedge
Carex tereticaulis Rush Sedge
Centipeda cunninghamii Common Sneezeweed
Chamaesyce drummondii Flat Spurge
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax-lily
Dichondra repens Kidneyweed
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Anthrosachne scaber Common Wheatgrass
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
Goodenia glauca Pale Goodenia
Haloragis glauca f. glauca Grey Raspwort
Lipocarpha microcephala Button Rush
Lomandra effusa Scented Mat-rush
Lomandra longifolia Spiny-headed Mat-rush
Marsilea drummondii Common Nardoo
Mentha australis River Mint
Microlaena stipoides Meadow Rice-grass
Myriophyllum papillosum Water-milfoil
Paspalidium jubiflorum Warrego Summer-grass
Phragmites australis Common Reed
Poa fordeana Sweet Swamp grass
Lobelia concolor Poison Pratia
Pycnosorus globosus Drumsticks
Pycnosorus pleiocephalus Soft Billy buttons
Ranunculus lappaceus Common Buttercup
Ranunculus pumilio Ferny Buttercup
Teucrium racemosum Grey Germander
Tricoryne elatior Yellow Rush-lily
Triglochin procerum spp. agg. Water-ribbons
Vallisneria australis Eel-weed
Viola betonicifolia Showy Violet
Wahlenbergia fluminalis River Bluebell

 

LANDFORM Plains
VEGETATION TYPE Grey Box Woodland.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Open grassy woodland with Grey Box and Buloke.
Alluvial, variety of soils – clays, loams, sands and silts.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Murrami Track south-east of Griffith, Narrandera area.
TREES >8M Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Brachychiton populneus subsp. trilobus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus microcarpa Grey Box
Hakea tephrosperma Hooked Needlewood
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia hakeoides Western Black Wattle
Acacia oswaldii Miljee
Acacia pendula Boree
Senna artemisioides subsp. zygophylla Narrow leaf Desert Cassia
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Chenopodium desertorum Desert Goosefoot
GROUND COVERS Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Austrostipa blackii Crested Speargrass
Calostemma purpureum Wilcannia Lily
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax-lily
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enteropogon acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Maireana humillima Dwarf Bluebush
Parsonsia eucalyptophylla Gargaloo
Sida fibulifera Pin Sida
Solanum esuriale Quena

 

LANDFORM Prior Streams, Lunettes and Sand Ridges
VEGETATION TYPE Callitris Mixed Woodland (Prior Streams / Lunettes).
GEOLOGY & SOILS Low woodland to woodland of prior streams, source bordering dunes or lunettes dominated by White Cypress Pine and shrubs scattered over a grassy understorey.
Alluvial or aeolian, well-drained sandy-loams and loams.
LOCATION EXAMPLE No intact examples remain, disturbed example of a prior stream on Wrights Lane 5 km north of Carrathool.
TREES >8M Acacia homalophylla Yarran
Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus populnea subsp. bimbil Bimble Box
Geijera parviflora Wilga
Hakea tephrosperma Hooked Needlewood
Myoporum platycarpum Sugarwood
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia deanei subsp. paucijuga Green Wattle
Acacia hakeoides Western Black Wattle
Acacia oswaldii Miljee
Acacia pendula Boree
Acacia salicina Cooba
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens Rosewood
Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Native Blackthorn
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow leaf Hopbush
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
Pittosporum angustifolium Butterbush
Santalum acuminatum Quandong
Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia Fine leaf Desert Cassia
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Maireana decalvans Black Cottonbush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
GROUND COVERS Aristida behriana Brush Wiregrass
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Cheilanthes sieberi subsp. sieberi Mulga Fern
Dysphania melanocarpa Black Crumbweed
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enteropogon acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Jasminum didymum subsp. lineare Native Jasmine
Lomandra leucocephala Woolly-head Mat-rush
Sida corrugata Corrugated Sida
Stackhousia monogyna Creamy Candles
Triptilodiscus pygmaeus Common Sunray
Wurmbea dioica subsp. dioica Early Nancy